Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera has ordered the military to begin preparing to withdraw from their peacekeeping mission ...

South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the ...

International Criminal Court prosecutors said on Wednesday they were closely monitoring events in Democratic Republic of ...

Relations between Rwanda and South Africa have soured as security deteriorates in eastern DR Congo. Kagame, meanwhile, took ...

The remains of 14 South African soldiers killed in the conflict in eastern DR Congo more than a week ago are due home on ...

The South African Parliament has questioned its defence organ over its mandate in eastern DR Congo, noting that it’s not on a peacekeeping mission and that clarifications should be made on what they ...

The Southern African Development Community intervention force in the mission in the DRC is outgunned and outmanned.

M23 rebels fighting the Congolese army in eastern Congo are using advanced weapons and equipment similar to those used by the ...

Rwanda's leader also threatened to “deal” with any confrontation with South Africa, which has complained that fighting in eastern Congo has left South African peacekeepers dead. In his first ...

Critical minerals factor into the fight.

Kagame's comments clearly suggested that he wants South Africa to back off from DR Congo, where its military involvement ...

The M23 launched a new offensive in DR Congo's South Kivu days before the Rwandan and Congolese presidents are due to attend a crisis summit. Meanwhile the Rwandan Foreign ...